On Friday 09 September 2005 21:34, Jimmy Cartrette wrote: > Arno, > Most of your suggestions helped alot, but now I ran into another gotcha. > Now the restore part is almost completely automated, but here's the > problem: If no tape is 'mounted' in bacula, the operator never gets the > email to put the correct tape in. If I put in (random tape) and mount > it, then the operator gets the email to put in the right tape. Do you or > anybody else know of any way around this?
I don't usually suggest that beginning Bacula users try beta software, but it might be worth trying version 1.37.38. The way Bacula "opens" tape drives is significantly different (it does a lot of hand springs to open a drive that could not be opened in 1.36.x). Assuming that you have your email program properly configured, testing (or switching to) version 1.37.38 might solve the problem of getting operator messages. > > Arno Lehmann wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Jimmy Cartrette wrote: > >> Arno, > >> > >> These customers are not the most technically feasible people, and I > >> balk at them actually using a console program to do restores. > > > > I won't argue here... > > > >> They were previously using a graphical Arcserve program under > >> Netware. I really don't want to make them open up another wx-console > >> and type mount, but from what I understand this might be what I have > >> to do. > > > > Let's wait if someone with more experience in using the > > wx-consolesrestore mode is around. It's quite possible that there will > > be a better solution, if not now, then later. > > > > I'm not certain, but I think that the right combination of the device > > settings in the SD configuration might help you - I'm thinking about > > Always Open, Volume Poll Interval, Close on Poll and Offline on > > Unmount. You might try playing with those. > > > >> What I've done so far is added the Max Wait Time directive, and > >> changed the cron jobs to "RunBeforeScript" and "RunAfterScript" to do > >> the mounting/unmounting and labeling of Friday's tapes. > > > > That sounds better. By the way, following my above suggestion these > > might be (partly) unnecessary. > > .......... > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users -- Best regards, Kern ("> /\ V_V ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
